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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






2. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






3. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






4. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






5. The higher the BMR a client has --






6. What type of people need extra protein?






7. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






8. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






9. What orange vegetables are good to eat?






10. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






11. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






12. What does DASH stand for?






13. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






14. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






15. What function is vitamin D?






16. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






17. How much more calories are needed for pregnancy?






18. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






19. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






20. What is the function of vitamin C?






21. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






22. Fats are needed for proper absorption of these vitamins






23. Fats can lead to some medical problems






24. Protein stores show short term changes of which lab value






25. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






26. What function is vitamin A?






27. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






28. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






29. Name six sources of grains






30. Sources of fats






31. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






32. What is RDA of protein?






33. What is the function of vitamin E?






34. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






35. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






36. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






37. If fat intake is insufficient then expect these medical problems






38. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






39. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






40. When does BMR increase?






41. Promote normal metabolism - and prevent this nutrient from being used for energy






42. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






43. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






44. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






45. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






46. What are healthy sources of fats?






47. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






48. How much meat/beans should be eaten?






49. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






50. What type of fat is to kept to an all time low for consumption?